03/21/2019

A recent notable news moment was CNN anchor John Berman’s use of a simple Radiohead lyric to punctuate one of his close-up soliloquies: “This is really happening.” Berman quoted these four words from “Idioteque,” an arguably lesser-known song from Kid A, released in the year 2000. From Thom Yorke’s pen to John Berman’s lips, the…

Angela Griffin is a librarian at Broward College in Davie, Florida. Her most recent review appears in New South online, and a collaborative poem with Debra Dean, Denise Duhamel, and Julie Marie Wade is forthcoming in So to Speak online.

03/18/2019

A rabbit who is really a penguin lives in a nest of quarks under the sink, reading Bridget Jones’s Diary and whispering the secrets of the universe through the walls at night. That is the first, and one of the more straightforward stories in David Atkinson’s Roses are Red, Violets are Stealing Loose Change from…

Patrick Lofgren is a writer living in Long Island. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His first short story is forthcoming in The True History of The Strange Brigade. You can find him on twitter @Patrick_Lofgren.

03/12/2019

Caleb Michael Sarvis’s forthcoming Dead Aquarium is a collection of twelve short stories and a novella that Tom McAllister described as being “full of people living in the in-between spaces, downtrodden people at their lowest points who are still trying to do their best. . . . Though the stories are melancholy, they are also…

Michelle Ross is the author of There's So Much They Haven't Told You (2017), which won the 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Passages North, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, TriQuarterly, and other venues. She is fiction editor of Atticus Review and was a consulting editor for the 2018 Best Small Fictions anthology.

03/05/2019

“Who are you?” Monica Hand asked me, the first time we finally got the nerve to speak to each other. Columbia, Missouri is small, and the literary community is tiny. As an undergrad, I’d go to poetry readings, open mics, and author craft talks. I was just as much of a book nerd as anyone…

Sherell Barbee is a Midwesterner currently living in Boston, where she struggles with the lack of deep-dish pizza in her neighborhood. She currently works at 826 Boston, a nonprofit youth writing and publishing organization, and is the Associate Fiction Editor of Pleiades Magazine.

03/04/2019

It’s rare to open a book, read any given page, and find oneself utterly absorbed. But that’s precisely what happened to me as I read Virginia Pye’s marvelous new collection of stories, Shelf Life of Happiness. With supple prose and truly immersive worlds, I found myself neglecting the dishes, my ringing phone, and refusing to turn off…

Sonya Larson’s short fiction and essays have appeared in Best American Short Stories 2017, American Short Fiction, American Literary Review, Poets & Writers, Writer’s Chronicle, Amazon Originals, Audible.com, West Branch, Salamander, Memorious, The Harvard Advocate, Solstice Magazine, and others. She has received honors and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and more, and is the Director of GrubStreet's Muse and the Marketplace literary conference. She received her MFA in fiction in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and is currently writing a novel.

02/10/2019

Not infrequently, the “reading public” will “discover” a writer or artist from the past who is so brilliant, and singular, and original, that a furor or interest and outrage results. It will surprise no one that most of these creatives are women whose stars never rose quite as high as their male contemporaries. Leonora Carrington…

Colleen Ennen is an MFA candidate in Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and professional “nightmare woman.” She writes weird, wild, and unsettling fiction, and is at work on her first novel. Her writings have appeared, or are forthcoming, in LUMINA, Moon-Birds, and Breadcrumbs Magazine. She works, lives, writes, and teaches in New York, but her heart is in the Midwest. She is occasionally funny on Twitter.

01/21/2019

Maya Sonenberg’s memoir/personal essay, After the Death of Shostakovich Père is an intermingling of family-related memories, authors that shaped her as a reader and as a writer, contemplations on grief, and how this coalesces around a sense of identity. Within four sections, Sonenberg takes a non-linear approach to examining her father’s, Jack Sonenberg’s, pivotal life…

Kim Loomis-Bennett is a life-long resident of Washington State, besides a detour into Oregon where she met her husband. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in The November 3rd Club, The Copperfield Review, Poet’s Quarterly, and Hippocampus Magazine, among others. Her most recent work is included in The Far Field. She used to teach at Centralia College, but is now a freelance writer and illustrator. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and an MFA with a concentration in poetry, memoir and editing. She lives in Lewis County with her family.

01/01/2019

All roads are travelled. Vibration determines everything. This life journey upon which one embarks, a path enveloped by vague mists & fractured contexts. Marc Vincenz’s Leaning Into The Infinite would be this journey recapitulated — an odyssey through language where allegory is served up as the cargo. It is a topography of conjecture, with Orphic…

Residing in the southern part of Northern California, Matt Hill is a sculptor, poet, and fiction writer. His poetry, prose, and fiction can be found on many Internet venues, including BlazeVox Books, Gradient Books, Moira Press, Big Bridge, Chiron Review, and Talisman. Yet Another Blunted Ascent and Tertium Quid are his latest books (Moira Press, 2017).

12/14/2018

In 1927, twelve-year-old Marion Parker was abducted from her school in California, held for ransom, and then killed and gruesomely mutilated by a man named William Hickman. He slit her throat, cut off her arms and legs, cut open her abdomen, removed her organs, stuffed her body cavity with rags, and used wire to sew…

Colleen Ennen is an MFA candidate in Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and professional “nightmare woman.” She writes weird, wild, and unsettling fiction, and is at work on her first novel. Her writings have appeared, or are forthcoming, in LUMINA, Moon-Birds, and Breadcrumbs Magazine. She works, lives, writes, and teaches in New York, but her heart is in the Midwest. She is occasionally funny on Twitter.

12/08/2018

Laura Catherine Brown is the author of two novels: Quickening (Random House, 2000), which was featured in Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers series, and Made by Mary (C&R Press, Spring 2018). Laura has taught writing at Manhattanville College, and her short stories have appeared in Monkey Bicycle, Tin House, and Paragraphiti, among others.…

Marni Berger holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared at The Common, The Days of Yore, The Millions, The Critical Flame, and Fringe Magazine. Marni's novel-in-progress, Love Will Make You Invincible, is a dark comedy about a precocious tween, who, refusing to believe his long-lost father has committed suicide, instead becomes convinced that his father is a citizen of a secret underwater village. Marni has taught writing at Manhattanville College and Columbia University.